A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years’ War

Røge, Pernille

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“…The physiocrats were the first to be labelled economists and are commonly credited as the founders of the discipline. Certainly they were the first to formalise political economy as an objective science, tasked to anatomise general economic laws (Røge, 2013). They originated the concept of the 'national economy,' which they theorised as a system, comprehensible because subject to laws (Fourcade, 2009).…”

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“…The agrarian-capitalist trajectory that England undertook in the seventeenth century was adopted in the eighteenth across northern France (Normandy, Picardy, Île-de-France (Engels, 1877)), but also in other French territories, including the plantation slave economies of Saint Domingue and the Iles du Vent (Pierre Pluchon, in Blackburn, 1997, p. 439). The physiocrats were ambivalent toward slavery-Quesnay and Mirabeau opposed it, others did not-and toward colonialism (Røge, 2013;Dobie, 2010). Quesnay favoured a liberal reform of the empire, with slaves bought, freed and settled in colonies where they would work the fields with "military-like organization."…”

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Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology

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2020

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This century has not been kind to mainstream economics. It has failed to notice the planet is burning. An anti-ecological discipline, it pays scant attention to natural limits. If its moments of 'peak prometheanism' were achieved in the 1980s, in this essay I ask how far back does the rot go? Some ecological economists locate the wrong turn in the nineteenth century. Before that was physiocracy-the name means 'rule of nature.' The physiocrats were the first to call themselves 'economists' and are often credited as founders of the discipline. They were the first to formalise political economy as an objective science tasked to anatomise general economic laws. Could the physiocrats represent the foundation of a genuinely 'ecological' tradition of economics? In the bulk of the essay I subject physiocracy to critical analysis, with a focus on its relationship to agrarian capitalism and laissez-faire economics, and with attention, in addition, to social class, colonialism, environmentalism, and the growth paradigm. I ask whether physiocracy was science masquerading as mysticism or the reverse. The essay concludes with reflections on the ideological character of the discipline of economics and the limits of 'image-focused' alternatives such as Kate Raworth's 'doughnut economics.'

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Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology

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2020

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Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire

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2019

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Archives nationales d'outre-mer, Aix-en-Provence, France (hereafter ANOM), Sénégal et Côtes d'Afrique, Sous-série C 6 (hereafter C 6) 15, memo 56. the crown's grip on colonial possessions in the Caribbean and on the North American continent, political economists, policy makers, stakeholders of colonial commerce, administrators, and local entrepreneurs on the ground participated in a wider struggle to reorganise and enhance French colonial commerce. Attention to their myriad efforts to shape the recalibration of empire during the last decades of the Ancien Régime allows us to contextualise the articulation of a republican imperial policy during the French Revolution in ways that get beyond the stale generalizations integral to the division between pre-and post-revolutionary France. It also allows us to broaden our understanding of the dynamics that drove colonial reform. At the radical end of the Ancien Régime reformist spectrum were a group of political economists, known as the Economistes or the Physiocrates. From 4 De Mesnager to Choiseul, undated, Gorée. ANOM C 6 15, memo 24.

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A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years’ War

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Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology

Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology

Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire

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